Extremely disappointed in GPS reception...

[Night Train]

All the while I had my Evo 4G, I could speak my destination and I'd get a near instant response from the Google Nav app pointing me in the right direction, GPS and all.

Now....with my otherwise great Epic Touch, all I get is the Searching for GPS signal notification. The difference is night-and-day between how well the Evo picked up and held the GPS signal and how my new Epic cannot seem to do the same. Same general area and inside the same vehicle. It's just a good thing that I didn't absolutely need it yesterday otherwise I'd have had a problem.

Anybody know if there's a fix in the works?

[xtn]

Mine works flawlessly. So I would suspect a hardware issue with your unit.

[DirkBelig]

Mine gets a position lock much faster than my EVO did, BUT I had it drop in My Tracks claiming it couldn't see the sky (I was outdoors!) and when I look at the GPS Status app, it shows a wobbly accuracy readout ranging from 8-50 feet. Geotags in photos come up 50-200 yards off from where I stood. If I was targeting a cruise missile, the splash damage would be sufficient, but come on.

[foxythang74]

I get the same searching for GPS signal response!!! Needed it to get somewhere last week and had to fight with just reading the streets on the map view to get there. Def. a dangerous thing while driving too!!!!!!!!!!! WTH? Hopefully someone has an answer for this.

[jfenton]

If you watch the GPS closely, it turns off the minute it's not being utilized by a program...my guess it's a sort of sleep for power savings.

The only way I get mine to look really quickly is from a cold start...not if it has been left on a while and then seemingly goes into suspend mode.

Personally I think Google maps blows....Telenav locks on instantaneously and never ever has a problem knowing where I am or getting me where I am going. I suppose it could depend on what you are using them for however.

[Night Train]

Originally Posted by jfenton

Personally I think Google maps blows....Telenav locks on instantaneously and never ever has a problem knowing where I am or getting me where I am going. I suppose it could depend on what you are using them for however.

I used TeleNav this afternoon after reading your suggestion....the results were identical to what happened with the GPS signal in Google Navigation. It would eventually find a signal, but after driving a few yards, would stop tracking my movement. Then the polite lady came on and told me what I already knew....GPS signal was lost.

I'd hate to think that after bragging about this phone to everybody who would listen, one of the key features I rely on fairly often is unreliable at best.

[Flyboy1100]

##gpsclrx# enter your msl, reboot.

Should fix it unless you have a hardware fault

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[handsomeprince]

Originally Posted by Flyboy1100

##gpsclrx# enter your msl, reboot.

Should fix it unless you have a hardware fault

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Are you sure that's a way to fix it if it truly isn't a hardware issue?

[Holsum]

are you guys doing anything else while using navigation (pandora, spotify, google music, etc) i had this same issue with my EVO 4G when it first came out the second i turned off the streaming it worked flawlessly.

[Flyboy1100]

Originally Posted by handsomeprince

Are you sure that's a way to fix it if it truly isn't a hardware issue?

It works for me if I am not getting a lock quickly. After clearing the cache, and a reboot, it will lock in under a second. I find it works better than the gps status app.

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